Meet the FFF Farmers

We’ve now made it easier for you to support the FFF farmers. Use the dropdown menu below to find information on all farmers the foundation has funded recently. In each section you’ll find the names and locations of the farms, along with links to their websites where you can learn much more, like how and where to buy their products. We encourage you to seek out these farmers and support them throughout the year. It’s a win-win situation.

Project: Installation of solar panels to power and heat an urban farm, with the goal of going off the power grid completely and making Endless Greens a truly sustainable farm.

Dorothy’s GrangeBlanchardville, WI
Project: Restoration of a dilapidated hog barn, which will help the piglet survival rate and expand the availability of endangered Large Black hogs and Gloucestershire Old Spot pigs.

Project: Chicken housing for winter and a new egg washing machine capable of washing 1000 eggs in an hour, rather than the 120 eggs per hour done by hand. Together, the projects are expected to enable the expansion of the farm’s flock of laying hens from 750 to 5000 birds.

Project: Purchase of specialized farm equipment — seeder, transplanter and irrigation tools — that will help the farm make the leap from managing four acres of vegetable production to managing 20 acres.

Project: Construction of a high tunnel on the southern edge of our grape arbor and goat paddock that will allow for both season extension and early growing of certain crops — and to help support the farm’s CSA and market farm business

The documents below provides an overview of how the grant money raised by the foundation has been distributed. Since its inception in 2003, the Foundation has awarded about $2 million in grant money to Midwest family farms, the vast majority of which are still thriving. That’s an amazing statistic and one that demonstrates the impact that your generosity has made on small scale farms in the Midwest.